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by Jack Hannah Background On Wednesday 1st April 2020, Public Health Scotland (PHS) came into being. It was formed as a result […]

Divisional Information Specialist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust By Christopher Reading For some time the Information Department at Worcestershire Acute […]

The first of a series of weekly blogs on Forecasting R for participants and a wider audience. Please click on […]

We ran our first ever NHS-R webinar on Wednesday 19th February and it went down a storm! Chris Mainey facilitated […]

This post was originally published on medium.com but has kindly been re-posted to the NHS-R community blog. In September 2019, […]

This post was originally published on johnmackintosh.com but has kindly been re-posted to the NHS-R community blog. Background The NHSRdatasets package made […]

One of the greatest benefits of using R over spreadsheets is that it's very easy to re-use and re-purpose code. Learn how to write functions to further improve your code re-usability and cut down on errors.

By Zoe Turner One of the tasks on the Apprentice a number of years ago was for the contestants to […]

By Bahman Rostrami-Tabar Democratising forecasting project The initiative sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters provides cutting-edge training in the use of […]

The Strategy Unit, AphA (Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts) and NHS-R joined forces to deliver the first ever train the […]

My journey to work takes me about an hour and a half, and I catch a couple of buses with […]

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My journey into data science took a baby step a few years ago when I learned SQL during my global […]

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We really enjoyed our second ever NHS-R conference in Birmingham, which was attended by about 300 delegates. We tried to […]

This post briefly introduces an R package created for the NHS-R Community to help us learn and teach R. Firstly, […]

I suspect there are many blogs about R and why it’s so great: It’s free! It’s open source! There’s a […]

Dygraphs for mortality surveillance I recently presented some of the mortality surveillance charts we use to @RLadiesLondon (a very welcoming group!) and […]

Exact matching in R: a case study of the health and care costs associated with living alone, using linked data […]

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Getting data into R One of the things I found most difficult when learning R was getting data from our SQL Servers […]

Funnel plots Funnel plots are a common tool for comparing organisations or units using proportions or standardised rates. A common […]

Down in the South West of England we at the PenCHORD team of the NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula have […]